new species of Coleoptera from various localities. 5 



BUPRESTIDiE. 



Iridotcenia cupreovaria, sp. n. 



Elongata, angusta, a^iiea ; tliorace vitta submarginali, 

 linea mediana, elytrorum vitta irregiilari, margiueque 

 dimidio basali (a rama vittte mediaiia3 postice juncto) 

 cupreis. 



Long. Ti— 10 liii. ; lat. 2i— 3 lin. 



Head purple-asneous, forehead deeply excavated, a smooth 

 spot on the vertex, and the clypeus coppery ; eyes rather 

 prominent. Thorax much narroAved in front, with a slight 

 enlargement just before the anterior angles, very little con- 

 vex ; disk dictinctly and not thickly punctured, the sides 

 coarsely rogose-punctate, the mesial coppery channel well 

 marked ; the coppery stripe on each side is narroAV, and 

 extends to the anterior angle. Elytra narrowed nearly 

 from the shoulders to the apex, rather irregularly and 

 strongly punctate-striate ; a coppery stripe (varying in 

 width) reaches from the shoulder to about the middle of 

 the elytron, turns a little, and then extends to the apex 

 (this latter half is lightly impressed and finely punctured) ; 

 another coppery marginal stripe extends fr'om the shoulder 

 to about half the length of the elytra, where it is joined by 

 a short branch from the dorsal stripe. The under side is 

 golden, except the thorax, which is coppery. Tarsi green. 



Hah. — Andaman Is. (K. Meldola, Esq.). Brit. Mus. 



Closely allied to /. cyaniceps, F., but has the elytra more 

 regularly attenuated, and the stripes are quite different, 

 not straight, as in the allied species. 



Iridotania purpureipennis , sp. n. 



Elongata, nitida; capite thoraceque seneo-cyaneis, hoc 

 lateribus plaga ovali cupreS, ruguloso-punctata notatis ; 

 elytris purpureis (dorsim asneo-micantibus), irregulariter 

 striato-punctatis, usque ad medium fere parallelis, dein ad 

 apicem attenuatis, marginibus serratis ; corpore subtus 

 Ifete cupreo-aureo ; antennis, tibiis, tarsisque viridibus. 



Long. 1 6 lin. ; lat. 4| lin. 



Head and thorax deep blue, tinged with aeneous ; fore- 

 head deeply excavated, and with a deeply impressed cen- 

 tral line ; clypeus coppery. Thorax distinctly and not 

 thickly jumcturcd, narrowed in front of the middle, and 

 with a slight swelling just l)eforc the anterior angles ; cen- 

 tral line only impressed posteriorly ; each side has a large, 

 oval, coppery spot close to but not quite reaching the 

 margin. Elytra a little broader than the thorax at the 



